Purdue receives $81,000 rebate check for energy efficiencies

March 20, 2013

"With the Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Rebate
Program, Energizing Indiana aims to lower electric energy consumption and decrease
overall energy costs, as well as encourage vendors and contractors to actively
promote and install energy-efficient technologies like those at Purdue," says
Bob Nuss, managing director of Energizing Indiana. "Business owners and
facility managers have the potential for huge savings by taking advantage of
these rebates. Plus, it's the environmentally responsible thing to do."

Energizing Indiana pulls together state utility companies,
businesses and customers to work to achieve the mutual goals of lower energy
consumption, decreased overall energy costs and the installation of energy-efficient
technologies.

"The installation of our new chiller is one of the recent
steps we've taken to become more energy-efficient," says Bob McMains, vice
president for physical facilities. "We plan to continue to strive toward
more efficient energy consumption and to do so with the collaboration of our
community partners."

This particular
rebate was equal to $30 per ton of the new 2,700-ton chiller at the Northwest
Chiller Plant. The rebate represents 11 percent of the chiller's purchase
price.